Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

The only boring people I know are bored people.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer

I think I deserve something beautiful.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular.

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

eventually, everything goes away.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

I feel like if I were to get another tattoo, it would probably be those two words. Just stubborn, stubborn, stubborn gladness.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

Your tears are my prayers.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.